What is the Colorado Accountable Care Collaborative?

The Colorado Accountable Care Collaborative is an innovative program designed to pay providers for the increasing value they deliver while better cording care for members. Only nine other states have implemented similar models, putting Colorado at the forefront of change across the nation.

What is Accountable care Collaborative?

An Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is a group of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high-quality care to their patients.

What is a Colorado Rae?

Regional Accountable Entities, or RAEs, are new organizations in Health First Colorado, Colorado’s Medicaid program. They are responsible for coordinating members’ care, ensuring they are connecting with primary and behavioral health care, and developing regional strategies to serve Health First Colorado members.

What do we mean by collaborative care?

What is collaborative care? Collaborative care is a team-based, comprehensive model of patient treatment, designed to improve results, cut costs and empower patients and their families. In essence, it means bringing together numerous physicians and caregivers in order to consider a patient as a whole person, rather than just as a body or disease.

How does an Accountable Care Organization work?

An Accountable Care Organization is a network of doctors and hospitals that work together to provide coordinated care to patients in an effort to lower costs and improve health outcomes. These doctors and hospitals share not only medical responsibility but also the financial risk as part of the ACO.

What is an ACO model?

An accountable care organization (ACO) is a health care delivery model envisioned by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in which a group of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers work together to coordinate care for people enrolled in Original Medicare.

What is the BJC accountable care organization?

BJC’s Accountable Care Organization is focused on achieving improved patient-centered health outcomes and cost savings by improving care coordination and disease coordination for patients; expanding evidence-based care delivery models; and developing a structure that provides sharing of cost savings, if any, to ACO participants.